Papers by Author: Nguyen The Loc

Abstract: The Zn-22Al alloy with fine-equi-axed has been well known as a typical superplastic metallic material [1]. In the present study, The Zn-22Al alloy ingot of 20mm thickness was homogenized, either air-cooled or water-quenched, and then hot-rolled to a thickness of 2mm. Microstractural observation, showed that in the air-cooled specimens lammellar microstructure was formed after homogenization, and become fragmented to fine-grained microstructure as the hot rolling process proceeded. In the water-quenched specimens, equi-axed fine-grained microstructure with grain size under 2.1μm was attained and maintained throughout the hot rolling process.

Abstract: The Zn-Al eutectoid alloy has been well known as a typical superplastic metallic material with small grain sizes. In the present study, controlling conditions in hot rolling such as temperature, total number of passes, reduction in a pass, etc. have been investigated in a ZnAl eutectoid alloy to obtain finegrained microstructures. Homogenized ingot specimens were hotrolled by a total rolling reduction of 90% with different pass schedule. Microstructural observation on the final sheet showed that nearly equiaxed finegrained microstructure with grain size of about 2µm was formed when the ingot was waterquenched after homogenization.